Translation: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow - 29 Translation(s) | dotSUB

Translation: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow - 29 Translation(s) | dotSUB

• In the beginning was the Tower of Babel.
• The usual story says it was man’s attempt to compete with the gods.
• But what those Babylonians really did
• was build the largest silo of translations in the known world.
• Yes, they were trying to reach the clouds.
• But the tower was so tall and heavy with the weight of translations
• that it collapsed on top of them.
• The translators escaped, and spread out all over the world.
• in search of more effective tools.
• For example, translators need good memories.
• The more they work, the greater the stock of translations others can learn from.
• The Rosetta Stone dates back to the 2nd century.
• With its three versions of the same underlying text,
• it’s one of the finest examples of a parallel corpus or translation memory.
• Give translators parallel data, and they can move the world.
• But they need proper training data.
• In 9th century Bagdad, for example,
• Arabic was a new target language for a huge job of translating scientific and medical content
• from Greek and Syriak.
• Caliph Al-Mamūn built the House of Wisdom to train a translator base,
• establish terminology, and control translation quality.
• The right skills flourish best with proper infrastructure and good tools.
• After millennia of laborious copying,
• moveable print technology was introduced in the 15th century.
• It killed off Latin, and created the first multilingual publishing industry.
• 500 years before, block-printing had been used in Asia
• to print the Chinese translation of the Buddhist Tripitaka.
• In Europe, Luther’s German translation of the Bible
• was one of the first great print runs in history.
• But the explosion of knowledge through printed translation
• started worrying 17th century Europeans.
• So many languages, but where’s the truth?
• John Wilkins, Leibniz and others tried to develop a single logical language,
• a shared interlingua for scientific communication.
• But back in the real world, the translation workload kept growing...
• Dominant languages like Latin, Chinese, or English tend to crush minority tongues.
• Smaller language communities constantly fight back, and language wars are a fact of life.
• In the late 19th century
• Zamenhof invented Esperanto, a mash up auxiliary language for peace and progress.
• A noble dream, but languages are rooted in locale.
• Translators are always the spearhead of local responses to globalizing ambitions.
• But they need better tools.
• The electronic computer arrived in the 1950s,
• not just a number cruncher but a symbol processor.
• It promised software solutions to almost every translation automation problem.
• Translators could finally use machines to do the heavy lifting.
• We now live in a new world of instant global communications.
• Translation is a daily necessity,
• and we can use innovative information technology to leverage language data.
• But first we must share, build and experiment together.
• TAUS is here to help build a new Babel in the cloud,
• to ensure that business and society communicate better
• and solve the language problems that confront us all.

Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success - 47 Translation(s) | dotSUB

Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success - 47 Translation(s) | dotSUB

This is really a two hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down to three minutes. And it all started one day on a plane, on my way to TED, seven years ago. And in the seat next to me was a high school student, a teenager, and she came from a really poor family. And she wanted to make something of her life, and she asked me a simple little question. She said, "What leads to success?" And I felt really badly, because I couldn't give her a good answer. So I get off the plane, and I come to TED. And I think, jeez, I'm in the middle of a room of successful people! So why don't I ask them what helped them succeed, and pass it on to kids? So here we are, seven years, 500 interviews later, and I'm gonna tell you what really leads to success and makes TED-sters tick. And the first thing is passion. Freeman Thomas says, "I'm driven by my passion." TED-sters do it for love, they don't do it for money. Carol Coletta says, "I would pay someone to do what I do." And the interesting thing is, if you do it for love, the money comes anyway. Work! Rupert Murdoch said to me, "It's all hard work. Nothing comes easily. But I have a lot of fun." Did he say fun? Rupert? Yes! TED-sters do have fun working. And they work hard. I figured, they're not workaholics. They're workafrolics. Good! Alex Garden says, "To be successful put your nose down in something and get damn good at it." There's no magic, it's practice, practice, practice. And it's focus. Norman Jewison said to me, "I think it all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing" And push! David Gallo says, "Push yourself. Physically, mentally, you've gotta push, push, push." You gotta push through shyness and self-doubt. Goldie Hawn says, "I always had self-doubts. I wasn't good enough, I wasn't smart enough. I didn't think I'd make it." Now it's not always easy to push yourself, and that's why they invented mothers. (Laughter) Frank Gehry -- Frank Gehry said to me, "My mother pushed me." Serve! Sherwin Nuland says, "It was a privilege to serve as a doctor." Now a lot of kids tell me they want to be millionaires. And the first thing I say to them is, "OK, well you can't serve yourself, you gotta serve others something of value. Because that's the way people really get rich." Ideas. TED-ster Bill Gates says, "I had an idea -- founding the first micro-computer software company." I'd say it was a pretty good idea. And there's no magic to creativity in coming up with ideas, it's just doing some very simple things. And I give lots of evidence. Persist. Joe Kraus says, "Persistence is the number one reason for our success." You gotta persist through failure. You gotta persist through crap! Which of course means "Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure." (Laughter) So, the big -- the answer to this question is simple: Pay 4,000 bucks and come to TED. Or failing that, do the eight things -- and trust me, these are the big eight things that lead to success. Thank you TED-sters for all your interviews!

New Media Literacies - 5 Translation(s) | dotSUB

New Media Literacies - 5 Translation(s) | dotSUB

• The new media literacies are certain skills that everybody needs to deal with our culture today
• to function in the current media environment
• within the internet, with cell phones
• how to interact with information and with culture
• with just the pace of life wich is very different now that it was twenty years ago
• there are the things they need to know to become creative artists,
• to become citizens, to become workers in the future
• in the past, media literacy was all about to trying to get consumers of media
• to think critically about what they were watching
• a large numbers of people were receiving media messages
• that were created by a small number of producers
• now we start to look at the challenges for both the consumers and the producers of media
• and we look at the remodifications that that has in their lives
• we are not really just consumers anymore,
• we are also making thinks or putting stuff out there,
• whether it is just a Facebook profile or something more complex
• narratives where the reader plays a role in shaping the story
• a video or an art piece
• interactive online spaces
• anything that I might put in the internet
• so, whether than just asking questions of creators
• we are now also having to ask questions about ourselves
• What do we need to participate?
• What skills do we need now?
• One example of skill might be judgment
• where you find some information online and you need to be able
• to decide whether that information is reliable or not
• Negotiation means knowing how to enter into different groups and different spaces
• and knowing how to understand what the different norms are
• Appropiation... how do I remix and sample content in a meaningful way
• One of my favourites skills is play
• what we define is the capacity to experiment
• with the sorroundings as a form of problem solving
• Transmedia navigation
• Simulation
• Collective intelligence
• Performance
• Distributed cognition
• Visualization
• Multitasking
• They are not just skills for the classroom
• and they are not just skills for the workplace
• They are skills that involve creative expression
• They are skills that involve citizenship
• They are skills that connect people together
• in something larger than in individual levels
• Learning new skills, new competences...
• to make really great things and be full participants